Returned Quotes
517 quotes by 451 authors
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In late 2009, I returned to Baghdad after a lengthy absence. I was living alone, in the Hamra Hotel, the twice bombed-out de facto international…
— Michael Hastings
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I grew up very strongly with this sense of time being circular: that it constantly returned upon itself.
— Richard Flanagan
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I have lately returned from Harpers Ferry, to which place I was suddenly called, on the 17th instant, by causes the most disturbing and destructive…
— Henry A. Wise
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His daughter returned from her boarding school, improved in fashionable airs and expert in manufacturing fashionable toys; but, in her conversation, he sought in vain…
— Emma Willard
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Few of us will forget the wail of mingled grief, rage and horror which rose from the camp when the Indians returned to it and…
— John Gibbon
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President Reagan always gave the credit to the American people and American ideals. He treated his job as a valuable temporary loan from the American…
— William L. Jenkins
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A year ago I was in the city of Genoa, and I found that it returned seven representatives to the Sardinian Parliament at Turin, seven…
— John Bright
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From Nelson county we went to Logan county to see some relatives we had there, and after staying until the middle of October, I returned…
— Jesse James
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The most difficult part of playing Christ was that I had to keep up the image around the clock. As soon as the picture finished,…
— Max von Sydow
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The third stage was the reaction that came when the body struggled to compensate for its ills - when, for instance, the white count not…
— John Hersey
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They had certainly exasperated them, and could not disperse them, as after every charge - and some of these drove the people right against the…
— Walter Crane
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In 1971 I returned to the University of Chicago as Professor of Physics.
— James Cronin
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The Spanish troops returned and we could yet discover the grass beaten down in the direction which they went.
— Zebulon Pike
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You have already disarmed my men without my knowledge, are their arms to be returned or not?
— Zebulon Pike
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After the war, I returned to Minnesota, from which I soon moved to Brown University, and a year later, to Columbia University where I remained…
— George Stigler
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I was worried when I returned that I might be booed or barracked. Nobody has waved fivers at me. I am touched by the reception…
— John Higgins
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The beginning of my political career was not promising. I ran for junior class president at Shortridge High school and was runner up. I ran…
— Richard Lugar
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There is no hope for my life if I am ever returned to Belize.
— John McAfee
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I remember those happy days and often wish I could speak into the ears of the dead the gratitude which was due to them in…
— Gwyn Thomas
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The love that lasts the longest is the love that is never returned.
— William Somerset Maugham
Who Wrote These Returned Quotes
451 authors contributed a total of 517 Returned Quotes, led by these top contributors: